Samin Nili-Ahmadabadi, Behrad Soleimani, V. Shah-Mansouri
{"title":"A Stackelberg Based Leadership Algorithm for RAT Selection in Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"Samin Nili-Ahmadabadi, Behrad Soleimani, V. Shah-Mansouri","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623171","url":null,"abstract":"To address the increasing demand of data rate for data-hungry smart devices, next generation cellular networks are heterogeneous (HetNet) environments where multiple types of base transceiver stations provide service to users using different radio access technologies (RATs). Mobile network operators deploy WiFi or micro-cell base stations along with macro-cell base stations to enhance the coverage, provide load balancing and extensively improve the throughput of their networks. Various challenges arise when users have the option for their access connection, where the most important one is the selection of the appropriate RAT. Different objectives can be considered for RAT selection, including throughput, power consumption, fairness, and etc. In this paper, we study a RAT selection problem for a HetNet network with WiFi and a 5G gNB. We model this multi-objective problem using a Stackelberg game. To tackle the computational complexity of this model, we propose a novel technique by estimating the interacting functions between the users and the RATs. The numerical results show the tightness of the estimation. Moreover, the RAT selection heuristic solution is 90 % of the times in 30 % proximity of the optimal solution.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116637537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Ehtesham Ul Hossain Khan, Nowshin Anjum, Fouzia Arida, Haque, Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan
{"title":"Hajji Tracker: Development of Web-Based GPS Tracking System for Pilgrims","authors":"Md. Ehtesham Ul Hossain Khan, Nowshin Anjum, Fouzia Arida, Haque, Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623091","url":null,"abstract":"The primary goal of this article is to create a web-based GPS tracking system for tracking and identifying Hajji pilgrims at Saudi Arabia's holy sites. The suggested system includes a GPS device that receives Hajis' current location (latitude and longitude) and transmits it to a database server. The Hajji's position will then appear as a point on the website's Google map. The established method will allow you to keep track of a missing Hajji and track down their location on a frequent basis, allowing you to locate them quickly. Because they do not know any other language than their own tongue, this approach will be extremely valuable to the elderly and young. There are two goals for the suggested system. The initial goal is to create a tracking device that is both adaptable and cost-effective. The second step is to implement the system with the maximum level of location precision possible. The testing demonstrates that the system achieves its goals of being low-cost, accurate, and realtime.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122905728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mahfuzur Rahman Chowdhury, MD. Muyeed Shahriar, Esrat Jahan Meem, S. Hossain, Md. Golam Rabiul Alam
{"title":"Bengali License Plate Recognition from Noisy Video Footage Using Deep Learning","authors":"Mahfuzur Rahman Chowdhury, MD. Muyeed Shahriar, Esrat Jahan Meem, S. Hossain, Md. Golam Rabiul Alam","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623250","url":null,"abstract":"At present, the license plate recognition of a vehicle from noisy footage has become an important issue in Bangladesh. Nowadays, in Bangladesh, the number of vehicles is increasing at a very high frequency. Moreover, unlike a US license plate, a Bengali license plate consists of two lines of inputs. As the vehicle number is increasing the difficulty of identifying a vehicle is also increasing. There are multiple problems where number plate recognition is a real necessity such as, in a crime scene, finding out a lost vehicle, identifying a guilty vehicle in a road accident, etc. The main challenge in this system is to predict the Bengali numbers from a very noisy image. Most of the methods for identifying vehicles from noisy data are not as accurate as they should be. In order to reduce such noise, this research explores different filtration algorithms which are edge-preserving. The research also gives a modified version of the non-local mean denoising filter which provides a significant amount of good results in terms of detecting Bengali words, characters, and digits from Bengali license plates using YOLO Version 3 algorithm.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"528 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123445961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Random Access Process Enhancements for Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT)","authors":"F. J. Dian, R. Vahidnia","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623252","url":null,"abstract":"Random Access (RA) is an important process in Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT), which enables the IoT devices to connect to the network for set-up and data transmission. As the number of IoT devices in the network is increasing, the competition for accessing the network increases as well. Additionally, since each IoT application may have different requirements in terms of parameters such as data size, latency, and data rate, it is essential to optimize the random access process to address the requirements of different applications. Therefore, there is a need to design the uplink transmission mechanism to reduce the signaling overhead being exchanged between the User Equipment (UE) and the base station. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has introduced several random access process enhancements in Release 13 through 16, for IoT devices that have small data size or the ones that not only send small amount of data, but also have a deterministic traffic or a predicated traffic pattern. In this paper, we first discuss the random access process and its advancements and then, explain the applicability of the existing features for some practical IoT use cases. The results of this study shows that RA process developed in release 15 and 16 under certain conditions can increase the efficiency of IoT applications by reducing the latency and power consumption.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129137050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henry Lin, Cesar Martinez Melgoza, Ameya Govalkar, Illianna Izabal, Tyler Groom, Acacia Codding, Kayla Lee, K. George, Alex Erdogan
{"title":"Design and Implementation of a Digital Radar Pulse Receiver on FPGA","authors":"Henry Lin, Cesar Martinez Melgoza, Ameya Govalkar, Illianna Izabal, Tyler Groom, Acacia Codding, Kayla Lee, K. George, Alex Erdogan","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623256","url":null,"abstract":"Signal generation and detection are key elements in designing and testing a radar system. In order to detect objects effectively and accurately, filtering is needed to reduce the amount of noise that comes from the surrounding environment, which is then deinterleaved based on their Pulse Descriptor Words (PDW). Deinterleaving is the process of separating signals that are interleaved together. This paper presents the design and implementation of a digital radar pulse receiver on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU104 FPGA board. The AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ RF module was attached to the Zync UltraScale+ MPSoc ZCU104 FPGA board to allow it to send and receive data. The data can be transmitted and received using antennas or data cables. To send and receive, two sets of FPGA and RF modules were necessary. One transmitted and the other would receive.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127718480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Transaction Placement Problem in Blockchain Sharding Protocols","authors":"Liuyang Ren, Paul A. S. Ward","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623200","url":null,"abstract":"While many researchers adopt a sharding approach to design scaling blockchains, few works have studied the transaction placement problem incurred by sharding protocols. The widely-used hashing placement algorithm renders an overwhelming portion of transactions as cross-shard. In this paper, we analyze the high cost of cross-shard transactions and reveal that most Bitcoin transactions have simple dependencies and can become single-shard under a placement algorithm taking transaction dependencies into account. In addition, we perform a case study of OptChain, which is the state-of-the-art transaction placement algorithm for sharded blockchains, and find a shortcoming of it. A fix is proposed, and our evaluation results demonstrate that the fix helps OptChain improve the system throughput by 4x.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130236564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agile Target Tracking Based on Greedy Information Gain","authors":"I. Kyriakides","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623164","url":null,"abstract":"The information acquisition capability of remote sensing nodes is limited by the scarcity of sensing, processing, communications, and power resources. In this work, a resource allocation method is proposed with an application to target tracking. The method predicts the locations of moving sensing nodes that provide improved information acquisition and tracking performance. Information acquisition is quantified by the expected information gain for each sensing node action. A greedy strategy is applied to select actions that provide the highest information gain while reducing computational complexity. The improvement in tracking performance by the proposed method is demonstrated through a simulation-based experiment. The simulation scenario includes tracking a point target with measurements from a stationary network of sensing nodes and coordinated measurement acquisition from moving nodes using the proposed greedy information gain method.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127764666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Weighting Factor Online Tuning Method based PSO Algorithm for MPTC Strategy of PMSM","authors":"Yao Wei, Yi Tian","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623099","url":null,"abstract":"The weighting factor in model predictive torque control (MPTC) has a strong influence on control performance. This paper proposes a weighting factor online tuning method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and linear fitting method using continuously sampled stator current errors. This approach has the advantage that the relationship between the weighting factor and errors can be reflected and adjusted on time. Simulation tests are carried out to validate the effectiveness and better performances such as speed integrated time and absolute error (ITAE) and stator total harmonic distortion (THD) for the proposed strategy.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121259881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rashmika Gamage, Hasitha Rajapaksa, Abhiman Sangeeth, G. Hemachandra, J. Wijekoon, D. Nawinna
{"title":"Smart Agriculture Prediction System for Vegetables Grown in Sri Lanka","authors":"Rashmika Gamage, Hasitha Rajapaksa, Abhiman Sangeeth, G. Hemachandra, J. Wijekoon, D. Nawinna","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623259","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture planning plays a dominant role in the economic growth and food security of agriculture-based countries such as Sri Lanka. Even though agriculture plays a vital role, there are still several major complications to be addressed. Some of the major complications are lack of knowledge about yield and price resulting in the farmers selecting crops based on experience. Machine learning has a great potential to solve these complications. To this end, this paper proposes a novel system comprises of a mobile application, SMS (Short Message Service), and API (Application Programming Interface) with yield prediction, price prediction, and crop optimization. Several machine learning algorithms were used for yield and price predictions while a generic algorithm was used to optimize crops. The yield was predicted considering the environmental factors while the price was predicted considering supply and demand, import and export, and seasonal effect. To select the best suitable crops to cultivate, the output of yield and price prediction have been used. Yield prediction has been implemented using elastic net, ridge, and multilinear regression. R2 of yield prediction is varied from 0.74 to 0.89 while RMSE value is between 15.69 and 35.05. Price prediction has been implemented using the algorithms of Gradient Boosting Tree, Random Forest, Facebook Prophet, and R2 is varied from 0.72 to 0.92 while RMSE value is between 26.81 and 140.72. Crop optimization has been implemented using the genetic algorithm.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116731849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George K. Sidiropoulos, Athanasios G. Ouzounis, G. Papakostas, I. Sarafis, Andreas Stamkos, V. Kalpakis, George Solakis
{"title":"Exploiting Deep Metric Learning for Mable Quality Assessment with Small and Imbalanced Image Data","authors":"George K. Sidiropoulos, Athanasios G. Ouzounis, G. Papakostas, I. Sarafis, Andreas Stamkos, V. Kalpakis, George Solakis","doi":"10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iemcon53756.2021.9623255","url":null,"abstract":"The classification of ornamental dolomitic marble stone tiles has been an issue in the past years, even more so according to their aesthetical criteria. Quality control and product classification during the final stage of a production line is the main problem of this step, which, when done right, can increase profitability. Machine Learning has been employed in many cases to improve and accelerate the decision and assessment process of this step. Due to the unique nature of the problem, the image datasets constructed can be heavily unbalanced, as there is no control over the number of marble tiles that are collected for each class. This paper examines the application of metric learning and more specifically Siamese networks, for the classification of dolomitic marble tiles, examining the performance of 7 convolutional neural networks as feature extractors. The results are then compared to the application of transfer learning techniques on the same convolutional networks. The experiments conducted revealed the high robustness of the metric learning approach, by providing very low standard deviation (stdev 0.53%) between the models' performance, compared to transfer learning where results per model vary (stdev 2.53 %) to a higher degree.","PeriodicalId":272590,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116391216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}